MISSISSIPPI: McCAIN

Published: November 6, 2008

CORRECTION APPENDED

Democrats had hoped to win one of the two Senate seats up for grabs. Instead, Thad Cochran handily beat Erik Fleming to keep a Senate seat he took over after Trent Lott resigned. And Roger F. Wicker, an incumbent who led throughout the race, won by a smaller but still comfortable margin over Ronnie Musgrove, a former governor of the state. Mr. Wicker's defense of his seat helped deny the Democrats any chance of controlling the 60 seats in the Senate they would need to prevent a Republican filibuster.

Every incumbent representative won re-election comfortably, including Bennie Thompson, a seven-term Democrat representing the Second District. Gregg Harper, a Republican, won the open seat in the Third District with 63 percent of the vote.

Correction: November 20, 2008, Thursday
A brief article in the State by State roundup on Nov. 6 about Mississippi election results misidentified the United States senator who took over the seat that Trent Lott resigned in 2007. He is Roger F. Wicker -- not Thad Cochran, Mississippi's other senator. (Senator Wicker won the Nov. 4 election and will serve the rest of Mr. Lott's term, until 2012.)